Putting Skills to Work in the Digital Labour MarketEuropean Conference on ESCO and EUROPASS26-27 June 2019, Nikosia

Dimitrios Pikios

Project Coordinator ESCO

European Commission

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Unit E2 – Skills and Qualifications

Mobilising skills in a digital labour market

People find jobs online

Employers manage HR and recruitment with IT

Skills are main tool of job matching instruments

Talent platforms are cornerstone of labour market

Difficulties finding staff

4 out of 10 employers have difficulties finding staff with the right skill set

Inefficient labour markets

Skill gaps of workforce

Digital technologies can increase efficiency and tackle skill gaps

Talent platforms

Potentially add 5.2 million jobs and increase GDP by EUR 360 billion(2015 McKinsey Global)

Higher labour market participation

More, better and faster matches

Better informed career decisions

EU goals in digital labour market

Better link education-training to labour ensure access to the best opportunities

Ensure transparency of information on skills through systems’ interoperability

Allow open-fair access to information on skills, qualifications, jobs and training

avoid monopolisation of data in digital labour market

European open standards to counteract risks of proprietary standards

European Qualifications Framework

European open

standards

Monitoring of labourmarket

European open standards for an open and inclusive digital labour market

Reduce mobility barriers by reducing barriers in the digital space

Communication of skills-qualifications across languages and national standards

Understanding and trust of information

European Qualifications Framework

8-Level reference framework, covering all types and all levels of qualifications

Defined in terms of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills, responsibility &

autonomy)

Translation grid for qualifications across countries

EQF Objectives

Transparency, comparability and portability of people's qualifications

Employability, mobility and social integration of workers and learners

Linking formal, non-formal and informal learning

Supporting the validation of learning outcomes acquired in different settings

Main impacts of the EQF

Development of NQFs in Europe (from 3 to 43 in 10 years time)

Interconnected landscape of EQF and (diverse) European NQFs

Development of a comprehensive "map" of qualifications in Europe

Mutual learning between European NQFs (building trust)

Monitoring of labour market

Big data analysis of skills required by employers in online vacancies

Better understand changing nature of jobs and gain insights on future skills

Inform policy makers, education providers and jobseekers-learners

CEDEFOP is preparing a Europe-wide system on behalf of the Commission

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CEDEFOP’s big data analysis from online job vacancies

Inform career and training decisions of individuals

Allow employment services to understand employers’ requirements

Enable guidance counsellors to assess individual training needs

Training providers to revise training programmes

Policy makers to obtain up-to-date info on skill needs and new jobs created

EU reference frameworks and open standards for the digital labour market:

ESCO

New Europass

ESCO, the European classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

3 ESCO pillars

3 000 occupations

13 500skills

8 200qualifications

ESCO in a nutshell

Reference language for employment and education

Creates a shared understanding

Helps to cooperate across borders and languages

https://ec.europa.eu/esco/portal/home

Transversal Skills

Digital Skills

ESCO

uptake

Recruiting

Matching people to jobs & trainings

Advertising job vacancies

Career planning

Documenting & mapping skills &

qualifications

Analysing the labour market

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Current main ESCO developments

Development of skills hierarchy

Improvement of transversal skills

Translation of skills and occupations descriptions

Preparation for ESCO version 1.1

Pilot for linking qualifications to ESCO skills

Main purposes of the skills hierarchy

Search for and retrieve systematically the 13,485 ESCO skill and knowledge concepts to facilitate

• Compilation of CVs and job vacancies

• Annotation of qualifications

• Mapping national classifications to ESCO

• Creation of skill (self-)assessment tools

• Provision of targeted career guidance

• Matching jobseekers with job vacancies based on skills

Transversal skills

Further develop ESCO transversal skills hierarchy

Need for comprehensive listing and structuring

Work to start in June 2019

Translation of descriptions of

occupations and skills

Descriptions of occupations and skills only in English

Translation during 2019

Correction of mistakes

ESCO update cycle: 4 phases

1. Preparatory phase: collection and analysis of feedback

2. Scoping new ESCO version

3. Knowledge engineering and quality-assured translation in all

ESCO languages

4. Release on ESCO portal

Objectives of scoping ESCO version 1.1

Changes in the labour market: new & obsolete occupations, changing nature

Changes in curricula: new knowledge and skills in education-training

Changes in terminology: changes in terms referring to occupations and skills

Changes in requirements by implementers and technological development

Opportunity to correct identified mistakes: misspellings or wrong metadata

Pilot for linking qualifications to ESCO skills

Test with candidate Member States

Examine limited number of diverse qualifications in different national databases

Different description styles

VET and Higher Education qualifications

The potential of linking qualifications to skills

Enrich information on qualifications by linking their learning outcomes to skills

Employers grasp qualifications’ labour market value in a cross-border context

Individuals improve chances in labour market through better matching

New Europass

Current Europass (2004)

Citizens communicate

skills and qualifications

Employers understand

workers' skills and

qualifications

Education and training

authorities communicate

learning achievements

New Europass

Open to current digital evolutions and media

Dynamic in order to move from documentation to provision of wider services

Interoperable with any system through open standards

Show opportunities no matter the choice of system

New Europass Decision

Adopted by the European

Parliament on 15 March 2018

and by the Council of the

European Union on 12 April

2018

A digital e-portfolio for all skills & qualifications1• Manage your skills and

qualifications online

• Include documents and media, such as open badges, digital qualifications or video CVs

• Create CVs and applications

• Transfer your e-portfolio to/from other services, e.g. Social Media or job boards

• Find the best learningopportunities for you on theEuropass portal

• Find the best job for you on EURES

• Find jobs and learning offers byother providers, such as jobboards, Social Media, online learning platforms

• Apply with 1 click at partnerwebsites

Access more job & learning opportunities in Europe2

• A technical framework to issuedigital qualifications to people

• Fraud-proof with digital signature. Can includeinformation on thequalification, the organisationawarding the qualification andthe qualification system

• Machine-readable for online applications, job matching, etc.

Digital qualifications3

• Bring together the variousEuropean websites related toskills and qualification

• Easy access to everything youneed in order to plan your skillsdevelopment and your careerin Europe

One EU portal on career, skills & qualifications4

• Information on skills demand, skills supply and skills gaps helppeople to plan their trainingand career

• High quality results from thebig data analysis of jobvacancies

High quality information on skills demand & supply5

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dimitrios.pikios@ec.europa.eu